🏚 ‘Edge of Living’ - Photographed between 2008 - 2013 ‘Edge Of Living’ chronicles the lives of a group of young punks squatting abandoned houses in the northern city of Leeds U.K.

In the winter of 2008, I ran into a group of punks squatting in a freezing cold terraced house in Leeds. They had been squatting up and down the country and had somehow ended up in the city of Leeds. As it turned out, a few of them knew of me through my long-time connection with the punk scene back in Belfast.

2008 was the start of the recession and banks were repossessing houses at a ferocious rate. Properties lay vacant all over the city. At one point, there were at least five different squat houses all within a mile of each other, some literally streets away from the next. Easy pickings.

Then in late 2012 the Ministry of Justice ruled that squatting residential buildings was to be criminalised for the first time in England and Wales. The new law was a sweeping blow ending things abruptly. This forced people to either live on the street, pay unaffordable rent or in some cases move out of the country in search of a better life, which a few did.

Ultimately, ‘Edge of Living’ is in part a coming of age story that reflects the highs and lows of a tightly knit group of friends continually running from the state during an uncertain and turbulent time.

– Ricky Adam

Photographed between 2008 - 2013 ‘Edge Of Living’ chronicles a group of young punks squatting abandoned houses in the northern city of Leeds U.K.

Photographed between 2008 - 2013 ‘Edge Of Living’ chronicles a group of young punks squatting abandoned houses in the northern city of Leeds U.K.Photographed between 2008 - 2013 ‘Edge Of Living’ chronicles the lives of a group of young punks squatting abandoned houses in the northern city of Leeds U.K.

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